Honeymoon over! Newsweek finally realizes Obama is a typical slimy politician »
Posted By Painesright 9 months, 4 weeks ago in NewsBarack Obama is a great pretender. He constantly says he's doing things that he isn't, and he relies on his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference. He has made "responsibility" a personal theme, and the budget's cover line is "A New Era of Responsibility." He claims that the budget begins "making the tough choices necessary to restore fiscal discipline." It doesn't.
If Obama were "responsible," he would be leading a candid conversation about government's size and role. Who deserves support and why? How big can government grow before higher taxes and deficits harm long-term economic growth? Although Obama claims to be doing this, he hasn't confronted entitlement psychology—the belief that government benefits once conferred should never be revoked—and asked whether some significant spending no longer serves any "public interest."
It is Obama's conceit—perhaps his cockiness—that he can ignore these blatant inconsistencies. Like many smart people, he believes he can talk his way around any problem.
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RedRiverJ9 months, 4 weeks ago
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Even tho the honeymoon might be chilling a little, think the media will ever treat him like they did Bush
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Here's a scenario...........
Imagine the liberal screech if George W. Bush had A-list country acts performing in the White House, and guests chowing down on some high-priced grub, while the economy was tanking and he was talking about the American people suffering.
Right now as we speak Barry and Shelly are partying hardy at the White House every night in the new White Frat House.
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nostalgia9 months, 4 weeks ago
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FTA:
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It is Obama's conceit—perhaps his cockiness—that he can ignore these blatant inconsistencies. Like many smart people, he believes he can talk his way around any problem. Perhaps he can. In this, he has an ally in much of the mainstream media, which seem so enthralled with him that they can't recognize glaring contradictions. During the campaign, Obama claimed he would change Washington's petty partisanship; he also advocated a highly partisan agenda. Both claims could not be true. The media barely noticed; the same obliviousness persists. But Obama still runs a risk: that his overworked rhetoric loses its power and boomerangs on him.
And it took Newsweek this long to see that?
Many of us recognized it during the primaries-
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RedRiverJ9 months, 4 weeks ago
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I bet some of the employees of newsweek are feeling the stock market, 401K pinch like many other American Tax payers.
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Or perhaps readership is down and they are appealing to the masses?
Either way you can be assure it's all about Newsweek. Where were they during the campaign when so many troubling facts about Obama surfaced?
They were on the media's Obama Luv Tour.
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cushi9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Obama is slowly but surely making good on his promises (the major ones, anyway) and all of you are simply bent on making it as difficult for him as you possibly can! Your incessant criticsm only serves to point this out.
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All of us have known from the outset that he would not be in lock step with everything everybody wants. He also has the right and, thank God, the wisdom to change his mind if he feels he is on the wrong course. That is a given. Given the complexity, enormity and urgency of the issues he must address, he continues to accomplish more in the short time he has been in office than the previous administration did in its whole tenure. You neocons are full of it!-
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cushi9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Nothing is worse than a bunch of critics with no solutions! None of you had a problem with the media's love affair with GW over 8 yrs of total incompetence, yet you whine because not all of them are overly critical of the new president...sheer hypocrisy!!
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Endoscopy9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Obama is dropping in the polls. The public is now finding that his promises were not what they thought they were. Hope and Change talked about at a high level. Liberals ranting all the time about the horrible Bush deficits and Obama saying similar things. So now the liberals are silent about the $2 trillion deficit that Obama wants. The public is starting to hear of this.
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At the same time news about the nightly parties in the White House are spreading while the country has people in desperate straits. This is the person that the public is starting to see.
Many of the Democrats that were elected from normally Republican areas were elected because they told the voters that they were fiscal conservatives. That is over 50 in the House. It is looking like they are going to be upset with the spending that the Democrats are pushing for. Blue Dog Democrats rising large again?
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JamesMarcus9 months, 3 weeks ago
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So let me get this straight. Obama's new budget, rolled out in the midst of a fiscal meltdown, amounts to 3.2 percent of GDP. That is almost identical to Ronald Reagan's last deficit, 3.1 percent of GDP in 1988. But Reagan is still the patron saint of the Republican Party, while Obama is a wild-eyed socialist intent on throwing away your money. Can somebody explain this to me? PS: I don't think Obama is a saint either.
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Endoscopy9 months, 3 weeks ago
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You and other liberals were bashing Bush about the deficit that Bush had that was putting this nation in deep debt that would be paid back by our grandchildren. You and the other liberals are very silent of the $2 trillion dollar deficit that Obama is proposing going to $1 trillion next year. He promises to get it down to $400 billion by 2012. This years deficit is going to be more that the total of the Bush deficit. Where is the outrage about this horrendous debt? Are you a bunch of hypocrites? Republican deficit bad but Democrat deficit good?
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Keep in mind that Reagan had a Democrat congress for the most part. Democrats are known as the tax and spend party for a reason. Reagan held down social spending that Democrats love and pushed defense spending after Carter had gutted it. Thee years into Reagans cutting taxes the country turned around from the Carter stagflation and prosperity started up again. -
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Klarissa9 months, 3 weeks ago
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James - What I object to is using the "stimulus" to put into place new programs.
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These programs will need funding forever, and should be considered as separate entities.
If Obama would stick to the actual stilulus - banks, mortgages, unemloyment insurance I would be fine with it.
Also, my pet peeve - either change the immigration laws or enforce them. This is the big black cloud hanging over medical costs that no one wants to talk about.
If I were from another country I would probably come here illegally to get free health care for my children.
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Klarissa9 months, 3 weeks ago
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James - I agree - except there is no national power grid to update.
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It has to built from scratch. Out into the boonies where the for green power will be put in place, there would have to be a new power grid, and it would have to be connected to a main power grid.
We are talking about power lines from the tops of mountains (wind)and deserts (sun), then connecting them to the power lines from dams, coal plants, and whatever else.-
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flyonthewallzz9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Hi Klarissa:
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I have been reading a little bit about "high voltage direct current" (HVDC)
The good things about it: are that power can be pushed greater distances with less loss and thinner and less wire. Another good thing is that there is almost no electrical magnetic disturbance and I think it does not matter what the voltage is being sent down the wire.
The bad things about it are that the switch gear that changes it from AC to DC and then back to AC is expensive. But folks are making big changes in that area.
I am a little fuzzy on the numbers but I think I remember reading somewhere that more than 40% of the electricity we generate is lost due to wire resistance. I also remember looking at a map that showed a bunch of overlapping grids that operated at different frequency cycles and could not share resources because of that.
Normally, given a choice, I would have picked Tesla over Edison in the "war of the currents".
But it seem they are coming up with new fancy ways to work around the DC "bugs", and Edison may win out after all.
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